Edward Phelips (1725–1797) was an English country landowner and politician who sat in the

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from 1774 to 1780. Phelips was the eldest son of

Edward Phelips Edward Phelips may refer to: * Sir Edward Phelips (speaker) (c. 1555/60–1614), English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the English House of Common and subsequently Master of the Rolls * Sir Edward Phelips Jr. (1638–1699), English landowner a ...

MP of

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, and his second wife Elizabeth Phelips, daughter of his uncle Sir Edward Phelips, MP. He succeeded his father to Montacute in 1734. He was educated at

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from February 1737, and matriculated at

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on 23 April 1741, aged 16. He married. Maria Wright, daughter of William Wright in about.1747 Phelips was returned unopposed as

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for

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at the 1774 general election and was the fifth member of the family to represent the county.

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wrote of him that he “ seems much fitter for parish or turnpike business, than to be the representative of a great county in Parliament” and he is not recorded as having spoken in Parliament. He did not stand again in

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. Phelips died in 1797. He and his wife Maria had four sons and two daughters. His eldest son

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was also MP for Somerset.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Phelips, Edward 1725 births 1797 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1774–1780